- 27th November 2025
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Following the launch of our Vision for Growth last week, which is built around four missions including supporting business and enterprise, we have published our E-business evaluation report. This report analyses the impact made and learning to be taken from our free digital support programme which ran from October 2021 to September 2024.
Designed to support to micro, small and medium-sized businesses to adopt digital technologies to grow and become more resilient, the programme successfully supported over 3,000 local businesses across the boroughs in the Local London sub-region.
Digital and business experts from three delivery partners - Enterprise Enfield, Newham College, and South East Enterprise – delivered the programme across eight boroughs (Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest), which resulted in safeguarding over 4,000 jobs and leading to over £57m increase in business revenue.
Testament to the success of the Local London E-business programme, the model was adopted, taking onboard our feedback and learning, to help SMEs across the whole of London benefit from developing their own digital knowledge.
The feedback detailed in the report highlights learning and successes, which are shared for future iterations of similar programmes. The Local London E-business programme was well received and appreciated by SMEs. In fact, 9 out of 10 businesses who responded to Local London’s survey considered the programme effective or very effective.
Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, Chair of Local London’s Growth Board and Mayor of Newham commented:
“Through expertise of the three local providers Enterprise Enfield (working in Enfield, Redbridge and Waltham Forest), Newham College (covering Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and Newham), and South East Enterprise (Bexley and Greenwich), the programme supported thousands of businesses to build up their digital skills, setting them on course to grow their businesses.
The achievements of the programme highlighted in this report speak to the future-changing difference this investment has made to people in our communities.
We are immensely proud that this model, grown in Local London, has been adopted across the capital to provide vital support to our most vulnerable businesses, and we believe that this will contribute to London and the UK achieving its growth and frontier-leading ambitions.”
Discover the London-wide support for SMEs: www.businessforlondon.co.uk
Discover more about our Vision for Growth: local.london/vision
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